nurseryfish

English

Etymology

From nursery +‎ fish.

Noun

nurseryfish (plural nurseryfishes or nurseryfish)

  1. Any of the fish in the family Kurtidae that carry their egg clusters on hooks protruding from the foreheads of the males.
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